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Tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk lashed out at a Democratic lawmaker on Friday afternoon who accused him of "endorsing a neo-Nazi party." Following Trump's win over Vice President Kamala Harris, Musk has recently tried to use his influence to tilt Germany’s election, endorsing on his platform, X, the country’s far-right Alternative for Germany party. Musk wrote Thursday …

President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming vice president bemoaned "democrat giveaways" on Wednesday in trying to explain why they helped torpedo a stopgap funding bill that would avert a government shutdown just before the holidays. But Trump and key ally Elon Musk came out against House Speaker Mike Johnson's funding bill on Wednesday, throwing the entire process into chaos two …

Sen. Chris Murphy pushed back against Fox News host Brian Kilmeade after he attacked Vice President Kamala Harris and her policies. "But I'm just saying this idea that people don't know what Kamala Harris is for on immigration is just not true," Murphy noted. "She's going to get to immigration that Donald Trump opposes." "Crime shot up when Donald Trump …

Kimberly Burrell, a life-long Democrat who will be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris for President, lost her 18-year-old son Darryl Pray Jr. in 2009 to gun violence. “Imagine the mother making minimum wage trying to feed children,” a "choked up" Burrell said, “They’re killing us without killing us.” Those comments showed up in an anti-Harris ad from a right-wing …

A Democrat used a popular Tim Walz line to hit back at Republicans on his GOP-led House committee after it subpoenaed the vice presidential nominee and Minnesota governor. Virginia Foxx, chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, took to X on Wednesday to reshare her committee's announcement that it had issued a subpoena for Walz to compel him to …

A Democratic strategist blasted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, accusing her of being a backstabber and shifting attention off Vice President Kamala Harris onto herself. Chris Jackson took to the social media site X on Wednesday, ahead of day three of the Democratic National Convention, to air his grievances over a Washington Post report headlined "Pelosi makes no …

As Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats gear up for their national convention, Donald Trump is on a social media spree. Former Republican Jeff Timmer flagged the post about empty seats at the Trump rally, writing, "Looks like someone woke up on the gibbering barking panicked side of the bed today." Former prosecutor Ron Filipkowski noted the high number …

Tim Walz is a seemingly safe, even bland, Democratic vice presidential pick. “And you've got Mr. Vance, who's a young guy who talks a lot, who, you know, has interesting ways of expressing himself, and then you got a guy who's just plain vanilla, meat and potatoes, roll up your sleeves, let's get the job done.” Like Correa, Sen. Kirsten …

A Democratic strategist said that top lawmakers anticipate Vice President Kamala Harris will wipe the floor with Donald Trump if the two meet in the presidential debate. Read also: Inside the GOP's mysterious agenda for America’s future "They do," he replied, "because he's foolish enough to think he can win, and she'll crush him." Trump has been trying out a …

“I’m completely stunned.” That’s the reaction of Charles Gaba, a Michigan health care analyst and Democrat who helps fundraise for other Democrats across the country through his website blue24.org. Charles Gaba Gaba said that in the less than 48 hours since President Joe Biden announced on Sunday he would not seek reelection and then quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, …

Former Rep. Tim Ryan on Friday talked up Vice President Kamala Harris' chances in a hypothetical matchup against former President Donald Trump. He also said that former President Donald Trump's "debacle" of an acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention has left the party "dying to get back on a more elevated message" and he said there's a "huge opportunity" …

Democrat Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, has declared that the Hunter Biden emails reported in the explosive The New York Post exposing corruption by Joe Biden during his tenure as Vice President are Russian propaganda. He declared on the social media platform, “Joe Biden – and all of us – SHOULD be furious that media outlets are spreading what is …